Boras, Tom

The composer, arranger, and saxophonist Tom Boras grew up in Chicago. He started studying piano at age seven, and the saxophone and clarinet at nine. He discovered jazz at an early age, and was the featured soloist with the Chicago Suburban High School Jazz Ensemble.

In 1962, Boras was awarded a full scholarship to the Stan Kenton Clinics at Indiana University, where he met the composers Morgan Powell and Dee Barton. Powell and Barton recommended that he study performance and composition at North Texas State University. There, Boras played baritone saxophone, bass clarinet and flute in the North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band for three years and recorded three albums with the band from 1967-1969. Two of his arrangements, Goodbye Pork Pie Hat by Charles Mingus and Ol' Five Spot by Charles Lloyd, were recorded for those albums.

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